Enlightenment's Wake

Politics and Culture at the Close of the Modern Age

By: John Gray

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Paperback | 3 July 2007 | Edition Number 1

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John Gray is the bestselling author of such books as Straw Dogs and Al Qaeda and What it Means to be Modern which brought a mainstream readership to a man who was already one of the UK's most well respected thinkers and political theorists.

Gray wrote Enlightenment's Wake in 1995 - six years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and six years before the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. Turning his back on neoliberalism at exactly the moment that its advocates were in their pomp, trumpeting 'the end of history' and the supposedly unstoppable spread of liberal values across the globe, Gray's was a lone voice of scepticism. The thinking he criticised here would lead ultimately to the invasion of Iraq. Today, its folly might seem obvious to all, but as this edition of Enlightenment's Wake shows, John Gray has been trying to warn us for some fifteen years - the rest of us are only now catching up with him.

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'Gray is one of our best social and political theorists ... This powerful and radical work opens as many doors as it closes.' - New Statesman 'Gray is a clever and energetic political theorist in the analytical mode. He is also dauntingly well-read and up-to-date.' - Guardian

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Introduction to the Routledge Classics Edition
Preface
Acknowledgements
Against the new liberalism
Notes toward a definition of the political thought of Tlon
Toleration: a post-liberal perspective
Enlightenment, illusion and the fall of the Soviet state
The post-communist societies in transition
Agnostic liberalism
The undoing of conservatism
After the new liberalism
From post-liberalism to pluralism
Enlightenment's Wake
Notes
Index
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